About
The Lamar Soutter Newsletter is a blog of short essays with unique perspectives on politics, history, psychology, and the social sciences. The first essay, “And To the Republic” was a two page article on the difference between a republic and a democracy, and how our understanding of those differences have changed. Since then essays on race, sexism, and cognitive biases which impede our own logic in everything from driving our cars to voting for president, have been written, usually with an emphasis on challenging what we consider to be “true” in every day life.
Nick is a writer and editor living in Ledyard, Connecticut. His fiction is represented by Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, and his short stories are often to be found on gather.com.
The Lamar Soutter Newsletter started as monthly emails to friends and family. On Gather.com the essays won Editors Choice on three separate occasions and complement his “Business and Craft of Writing” series.
He has a wife, three cats, a dog, and a family of eight field mice he cares for under his back porch. In his spare time he and his wife volunteer for the Obama Campaign.
Nick, his wife Holly, and their best friend Marc
Holly getting her Ph. D. in Chemistry
Our dog Dexter, who has managed to find a mud hole
to play in.
Two of our cats, Dingo and Apollo, snuggling.
Yes, people called these dresses.
Yes, people thought this was a gay wedding, and told us people like us shouldn’t marry.
Yes, the broadswords helped curb that kind of talk, but the church wouldn’t let us go into the building armed.
No, the groom (center) was not allowed to play the music from “Braveheart” over the loudspeaker.
